Posts Tagged ‘new restaurants’
A Break Down of Travel + Leisure’s 50 Best New U.S. Restaurants
I know that others have previously mentioned Travel + Leisure’s list of the 50 best new restaurants in America, but I finally got a chance to review the magazine’s related slideshow. I dutifully clicked on one slide after another after another, trying to discover which cities outperformed D.C. for these 50 coveted spots. Our metro area earned exactly one nod, for Founding Farmers.
Here’s the city-by-city breakdown of the other 49 spots:
- Chicago: Four restaurants
- New York City: Nine
- San Francisco: Eight
- Houston: Four
- Seattle: Seven
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Meridian Pint Coming to Columbia Heights in Late 2009
Yesterday, I posted about construction at the old Bi-Rite building, up the road from Wonderland Ballroom on 11th Street in Columbia Heights. Today, I reached John Andrade, owner of the future lounge/restaurant Meridian Pint, which will move into the building “any fall now,” as he put it.
Without further adieu, more details about the space: Starting in late 2008, most of the old Bi-Rite building was demolished. Meridian Pint will occupy 6,000-square-feet (humongous) and be the building’s primary tenant, with a lounge in the newly, dug-out basement level, and a restaurant on the ground level. There will be offices on the second floor.
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A Slavish Devotion to the New New Thing
A well-established D.C. chef/owner once bitched to me that his restaurants don’t get the same coverage as the flashy new joints with the multi-million-dollar build-outs and the pedigreed toques pushing yet another take on New American cooking. I was sympathetic. It’s true, food writers, like most journalists, tend to have a slavish devotion to the new. I guess that’s why many of us work for newspapers.
New restaurants are news.
Hate to say it, but here I go again: My most recent segment on Metro Connection was devoted to some of new restaurants that have opened in the D.C. region, including such rank newbies as Eventide, BRABO by Robert Wiedmaier, and Inox. When host David Furst and I recorded the segment, I hadn’t yet visited any of the three aforementioned establishments, but as part of my ongoing Best of D.C. research, I recently ate at Inox, the sleek new crib from chef/owners Jon Mathieson and Jonathan Krinn.
Is it worthy of Best New Restaurant?
